Comments on: iPhone “Emergency” calling allows calling for any number

By: med007

med007 — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 06:23:21 +0000

what a great feature! I didn’t know about it until i read your article. Now if I let someone use my phone I can not unlock the screen and just have them dial

By: Kevin Homehill

Kevin Homehill — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:55:16 +0000

Yeah, the passcode doesn’t prevent calling, so you need to inform your operator about the stolen phone. I guess you’ll do it anyway.

However, sim-pin is for preventing calls. So when the phone get’s stolen it must be on, so that it doesn’t ask for the pin-code.

So passcode is only for preventing outsiders for reading your mail, sms and other personal data like photos…and I think it denies DFU mode as well…

But hey, if there’s 4 hours passcode time, it’s meaningless. It should be asked everytime if you really trying to prevent wrong usage of personal information.

By: hostolis

hostolis — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:51:58 +0000

Well we should be able to pre-define a list of lets say 6 emergency numbers (like speedial) that we can call from the emergency screen.

By: Jash Sayani

Jash Sayani — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:35:38 +0000

So does it work without a working SIM….? :roll:

By: l2uso

l2uso — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:58:16 +0000

It’s a feature since ever(?), but in all other phones I’ve used this feature only allow to call a pre-configured (unique) phone number.
All depends where you live. In my country (Venezuela), for example, this could be considered a BIG BUG because the high degrade of violence and insecurity. We used to watch both sides before pick up the phone, otherwise we might be a robbery victim and a Kazakistan kind bill victim too :wink: .
In other countries/cities (mostly first world) this could be almost a bless at any circumstance.
Einstein and his relativity law :razz:

By: saiyam

saiyam — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:46:34 +0000

how do I get into the emergency screen without restoring my phone, I am running 2.1 jailbroken Iphone 3g. Can I just remove the sim card and make a call?
I wonder if it will allow international calls? If it does then I am just buying an Iphone and use it as an outgoing call machine

By: gsr

gsr — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:22:35 +0000

well duh :!: , this is old , i found this out when i first bought my iphone ,